Patents Examined by Amy Ng
  • Patent number: 9778825
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes a display unit configured to display an image including at least one object on a screen and a controller searching for at least one associated information on the object using a partial image corresponding to the object in the image, the controller displaying the searched associated information. Accordingly, when a user searches for an information on a specific object in an image using an image search function, it is unnecessary for the user to crop a partial image corresponding to the specific object in the image one by one. Instead, a mobile terminal automatically recognizes the specific object in the image and is then able to search for at least one associated information on the specific object using a partial image of the automatically recognized specific object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyungmin Cho, Minah Song, Jeonghyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9772763
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a user interface over a display screen of a cellularly communicative electronic device are disclosed. One such method can include the steps of: (i) concurrently providing on a first display screen, a first menu level providing one or more functional groupings and a second menu level providing one or more choices within at least one of the functional groupings; (ii) permitting a user to advance a cursor freely across the first menu level and the second menu level to select a desired choice within the one or more choices; and (iii) providing at least a second display screen in response to the selection of the desired choice, wherein a dynamic key assignment is displayed for a key included in a device keypad and wherein the dynamic key assignment is a function of the desired choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Michelle Allen, Arne Dettki, Giuseppe Damiani
  • Patent number: 9766802
    Abstract: A method disclosed herein includes displaying information associated with a first application in a display area of an electronic device, detecting a change in direction of a continuous gesture across at least a portion of the display area between a first direction and a second direction different than the first direction, the continuous gesture associated with a request to display information of a second application, the first application being different than the second application, in response to detecting the change in direction of the continuous gesture, reducing display of the first application to a first portion of the display area and presenting a preview of information associated with the second application in a second portion of the display area in which the first application was presented prior to detection of the continuous gesture, based on a first characteristic of the continuous gesture, discontinuing providing the first information and display the second application in the display area, and base
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Bocking, Donald James Lindsay, Daniel Tobias Rydenhag
  • Patent number: 9749395
    Abstract: An approach for collaboration is provided. An approach includes linking a first user device to a first collaboration screen of a work environment and a second user device to a second collaboration screen of the work environment. The approach also includes displaying data associated with the first user device on the first collaboration screen. The approach further includes detecting manipulation of the data at the first collaboration screen. The approach additionally includes displaying a copy of the data on the second collaboration screen based on the detecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Barry M. Graham
  • Patent number: 9703478
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, media, and/or methods may involve a keyboard and/or a selection of an element thereof. The keyboard may include a keyboard configuration, which may have one or more elements such as a character, a key, and/or functionality for the key. The key may include no characters, one or more characters, and/or one or more sets of characters. The architecture of the keyboard configuration may be based on one or more categories, such as a hand category and/or a finger category. In addition, a touch area may be recognized, which may be formed between a user digit and the key of the keyboard configuration. The category associated with the touch area may be determined, wherein the character, the key, and/or the functionality for the key may be selected based on the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Wenlong Yang
  • Patent number: 9697494
    Abstract: In a user-interactive method and system, a display application for enhancing user interaction over a network is provided. The method includes receiving preference information from a first user, the preference information indicating at least one type of image the first user wishes to view. In response to a network interaction being established between at least the first user and a second user, the method further includes retrieving a plurality of images associated with the second user based on the preference information. The method further includes displaying the plurality of images based on the preference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernadette A. Carter, Belinda Y. Chang, Fuyi Li, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Lisa A. Seacat
  • Patent number: 9684388
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that can receive a signal from a tangible object, where the signal includes an indication of an operation to be executed upon receipt of a user input applied by the tangible object, and that can determine the operation based on the indication. In this way, the user is not required to provide additional user input to define the particular operation that is desired. The apparatus may determine at least one recipient with whom data selected via a user input applied by the tangible object may be shared. The apparatus may further provide for the determination of an operation to be executed based on an identification of a selection of content and may provide for the association of the operation with the tangible object, such that subsequent user input applied via the tangible object causes execution of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: David Dearman, Hiroshi Horii, Vivek Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 9684389
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that can receive a signal from a tangible object, where the signal includes an indication of an operation to be executed upon receipt of a user input applied by the tangible object, and that can determine the operation based on the indication. In this way, the user is not required to provide additional user input to define the particular operation that is desired. The apparatus may determine at least one recipient with whom data selected via a user input applied by the tangible object may be shared. The apparatus may further provide for the determination of an operation to be executed based on an identification of a selection of content and may provide for the association of the operation with the tangible object, such that subsequent user input applied via the tangible object causes execution of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: David Dearman, Hiroshi Horii, Vivek Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 9684378
    Abstract: A method includes displaying information associated with a first application on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device. A gesture is detected on the touch-sensitive display, which gesture indicates a request to display information associated with a second application. At least part of the information associated with the second application is displayed without opening the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mihal Lazaridis, Daniel Tobias Rydenhag, Donald James Lindsay, Alistair Robert Hamilton, Robert Simon Lessing, Jason Tyler Griffin, Joseph Eytan Benedek, Todd Andrew Wood
  • Patent number: 9679297
    Abstract: A method for isolating analytics logic from content creation is a rich Internet application. In an embodiment, a method for isolating analytics tracking logic comprises receiving a rich Internet application, identifying a plurality of event elements within the content separate from content creation, tagging the identified plurality of event elements, wherein the event elements are tagged in isolation of content creation, and storing the content including the tagged event elements. The set of tagged event elements may be modified in isolation of content creation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ajay Kumar Shukla, Srikumar Sankaran, Praveen Kumar, V, Sundaresan Krishnan Meenakshi, Stephen Hammond, Remus Mihai Stratulat, Mayank Kumar, Anirudh Sasikumar, Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan
  • Patent number: 9665277
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for implementing control of keys of a virtual keyboard on a touch screen with two thumbs including conventional technical processes of arranging keys on a preset virtual keyboard according to a key layout and setting, and displaying the preset virtual keyboard and the keys on the touch screen according to the key arrangement of the preset virtual keyboard and corresponding setting and parameters. In this way, without changing the key layout of the preset virtual keyboard, the key position setting, and the current width of the virtual keyboard determined according to the current screen width, when the preset virtual keyboard is displayed and runs on the wide touch screen, the keys are at positions touchable by both thumbs of an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HSMC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mengming Luo
  • Patent number: 9652127
    Abstract: A mobile device for remote control and interaction with a screen of an aircraft cockpit display system is able to display at least one window including at least one control widget and/or at least one signal providing information concerning the status of an on-board system of the aircraft. This device is configured to download at least one window displayed on the screen so as to interact remotely with the interactive widget contained in the downloaded window by the said mobile control and interaction device and/or to display the signal providing information concerning the status of the aircraft's on-board system on the said mobile control and interaction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Nicolas Chatrenet, Eric Petit
  • Patent number: 9654425
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating at least one message between users is provided. The method includes the steps of transmitting, to a plurality of users, data configured to display at least one graphical user interface configured to facilitate users to organize and join a plurality of meeting groups associated with a plurality of in-person meetings or events; transmitting, to at least one user of the plurality of users, information identifying at least one predetermined communication; and in response to only a single action performed by the at least one user, transmitting the at least one predetermined communication to at least one other user of the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Meetup, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Heiferman, Emilio Andres Glusman, Gary Burns, Mathew J. Trush, Michael T. Fives
  • Patent number: 9652256
    Abstract: A user operations engine allows an end-user to select a specific region of a document. The user operations engine then provides the end-user with access to one or more video clips that demonstrate modifications that were made to the selected region of the document using one or more tools associated with a software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: AUTODESK, Inc.
    Inventors: Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice
  • Patent number: 9652744
    Abstract: In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include monitoring a process including a plurality of user interfaces, at least one of the user interfaces representing a notification of a task to be completed and at least another user interface representing information associated with an action corresponding to the notification; determining whether at least a portion of the process is a candidate for adaptation; and adapting the process by combining a first portion of the at least one of the user interface representing the notification of the task and a second portion of the at least other user interface representing the information associated with the action. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Peter Eberlein, Bare Said
  • Patent number: 9635115
    Abstract: Instrumentalities are effective to at least provide a user interface to a mobile device of the user for finding an unused space, among a plurality of spaces, according to a user-selected criteria, wherein the user interface is transmitted via a wireless protocol agreed during the wireless handshake; and in response, presenting the mobile device with first unused spaces meeting the user-selected criteria. Further, an access point may receive a problem space indication from the user concerning at least one of the unused spaces which associates a problem to the at least one of the unused spaces, thereby forming a problem space, and in response, second presenting a second at least one unused space to the mobile device without the problem space, wherein the second unused spaces are presented in order of nearness to a current user location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Kai-Yuen Hong, Hari Haranath Madduri, Michael Edward Ortman, Neda Samani
  • Patent number: 9633337
    Abstract: A plurality of emails having a same subject are identified. An inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails is determined. A user interface at an email client end is provided. The method includes on the user interface the plurality of emails and the inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails is graphically displayed, wherein the graphically displaying of the inclusion relationship comprises identifying content that is duplicated across at least two emails within the plurality of emails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hong W Ding, Jin Dong, Xiao Q Wang, Minmin Qiu
  • Patent number: 9612670
    Abstract: A system and method for implementing an efficient and easy to user interface for a touch screen device. A cursor may be placed by a user using simple inputs. The device operates places the cursor coarsely and refines the cursor placement upon further input from the user. Text may be selected using a gripper associated with the cursor. The user interface allows text selection without occluding the text being selected with the user's finger or the gripper. For selecting text in a multi-line block of text, a dynamic safety zone is implemented to simplify text selection for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Weir, Jennifer L. Anderson, Jennifer Wolfe, Gerrit H. Hofmeester, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Andrew R. Brauninger, Stuart J. Stuple, David Earl Washington, Matthew J. Kotler, Ryan Demopoulos, Amish Patel
  • Patent number: 9607287
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface rendering for information objects and provide method, system and computer program product for an integrated view of multi-sourced information objects. In an embodiment of the invention, an attention manager data processing system can be provided. The system can include integrated view logic executing in a computing device and an attention manager user interface generated by program code of the integrated view logic. The user interface can include a grid of quadrants. Each quadrant can correspond to a unique combination of importance and urgency. The quadrant further can include representations of underlying information objects from multiple different sources of information objects. Correspondingly, each information object can include a respective importance and urgency consistent with a corresponding one of the quadrants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew L. Schirmer, Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Sandra L. Kogan, Michael Muller
  • Patent number: 9588545
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for a phone application are provided. More particularly, a change in the display mode of a multiple screen device can be determined. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface for an in-process call of a phone application can be retained after receiving a flick in an off-screen gesture area of the device. However, the user interface moves from a first screen to a second screen (or vice versa) in response to receiving the flick. The user interface provides detail information about a phone call that is currently in-process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl